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This week's Link Dump is hot stuff!
And we have the photo to prove it.
Who the hell was William Shakespeare?
The marriage of George III.
A strange 7,000 year old figurine.
The life and death of "the most beautiful hotel in the world."
There are new 3D scans of the Titanic. And they're very spooky.
Speaking of spooky...
One of WWII's most famous myths.
A brief history of baked Alaska.
Caesar salad started out as finger food.
The Dark Ages were lighter than you might think.
Bohemia's "Winter Queen."
The Boxer Poet.
A fatal sequel to a singing party.
History's strongest recorded tornado.
A family's long service to the East India Company.
A look at the world of 19th century China.
Never mow your lawn around this woman.
How the 1906 San Francisco quake led to a romance.
China's talismanic tigers.
A hillside home's horrors.
The evolution of chowder.
A mass UFO sighting over Lake Michigan.
The once-popular art of photographing the dying.
A fatal London hotel fire.
The history behind a coal hole cover.
Denmark is shaking, and nobody knows why.
How George V came to choose a new prime minister.
The man who escaped the USSR by a very long swim.
The mystery of the Iron Age "skull comb."
Slender Billy of Pimlico.
The "Titanic Omar" bookbinding.
Crime-fighting cows!
A mosque for WWI prisoners-of-war.
Miss Whiplash and the tax collectors.
The eye doctor and the cats.
Germany's oldest known human footprints.
An ancient tomb that captures the summer solstice.
A particularly poignant murder of a child.
A talk with Anne Frank's childhood friend.
Why "one" and "won" sound alike.
The grave of Jorge Luis Borges.
What human flesh tastes like. I hope that's something you need to be told, if you know what I mean.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a smart-mouthed poltergeist. In the meantime, here's Johnny Cash channeling his inner Elvis.
I'm surprised Kurilov's escape hasn't been made into a movie. And it's sad to read about the Hotel Picardy's fate. Predictably, though, it seemed doomed to fail: it was probablky built too late and would have had a much longer life in the late nineteenth century, with guests brought by ship and rail.
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